Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones
On Sunday, 10 April 2022 09:54:34 EDT Brian wrote:
> On Sun 10 Apr 2022 at 09:19:43 -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> > On Sunday, 10 April 2022 08:40:29 EDT Brian wrote:
> > > /usr/lib/cups/backend/snmp
> >
> > The only machine I have here that has that file installed, an rpi4,
> > does not expose the printers address, only:
> > pi@rpi4:~ $ sudo /usr/lib/cups/backend/snmp
> > network lpd://BRN30055C8A2DC8/BINARY_P1 "Brother MFC-J6920DW"
> > "Brother
> > MFC-J6920DW" "MFG:Brother;CMD:HBP,BRPJL,URF;MDL:MFC-
> > J6920DW;CLS:PRINTER;CID:Brother IJ
> > Type3;URF:SRGB24,W8,CP1,IS1-13,MT1-8-11,OB9,PQ4-5,RS200-300,OFU0,V1.2
> > ,DM4;" "coyote.coyote.den"
> >
> > The only location identifier is the resolved "coyote.coyote.den"
> > which is this machine.
> >
> > None of the buster boxes have it, so they all report file not found.
> > BUT they were all installed from a buster respin by the linuxcnc
> > folks. But geany the editor, can drive that printer from any
> > locatiom my cat5 cable reaches.
> >
> > And I just checked because there is a 2nd printer, another brother
> > HL2320 B&W duplex capable laser, on this machine, and although the
> > above command only shows one printer, I can feed both printers from
> > geany running on any machine, all 6 of the profiles I have defined
> > are available for geany to use as an output device. I suspect the
> > laser doesn't do snmp, its a $120 printer. Probably some brother
> > version of plc5 since its running on brothers own drivers.
>
> Thank you, Gene. Your investigations are vey useful and point to my
> forgetfulness.
>
Your forgetfullness Brian? I'm 87, so it is std proceedure for me to
either repeat the experiment or spend a couple weeks sorting thru the
sometimmes decades old stuff in my mental attic, and FWIW I also claim
any references to oldtimers too. Surely you aren't that ancient. ;-)
> The snmp backend is not installed in the location I gave but has
> to be moved there. Do either
>
> mv /usr/lib/cups/backend-available/snmp /usr/lib/cups/backend/snmp
>
> or
>
> dpkg-reconfigure cups
>
> --
> Brian.
>
> .
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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